BJP Lost All 5 Seats In Anurag Thakur's Himachal Pradesh Constituency

The Bharatiya Janata Party lost all five Assembly seats under Union Minister Anurag Thakur's Lok Sabha constituency Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, while it won all three seats from party president JP Nadda's hometown Bilaspur. The Congress candidate won from Sujanpur, from where Mr Thakur's father and former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal used to contest, with a margin of 399 votes. Mr Dhumal was not given the ticket this time, though both the party and him insisted he had chosen to retire. Mr Thakur was seen publicly shedding a tear "in praise of the hard work" of his father soon after the announcement.